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Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotes (341)

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Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.
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I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than making deals. Management affects people and their lives.
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The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
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As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
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Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.
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Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.
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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant
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The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.
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Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.
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(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
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Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.
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Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.
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Any organisation develops people it either forms them or deforms them.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
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As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
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To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.
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Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
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The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.
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Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results all the rest are 'costs'.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.
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With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe they are themselves Europe.
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You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
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